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Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume IV
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Gliński, Mirosław. "Podobozy i większe komanda zewnętrzne obozu
Stutthof (1939–1945)".
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229:, ca. 1648.
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